“Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?”
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
"Sheehan, in Cuba, protests Guantanamo prison," MSNBC, 2007-01-06 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16504209
2007
“Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?”
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
“If there's anyone who knows, is there anyone who cares?”
Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), Ballad of Hollis Brown
“Every day, I define myself. I know who I am today. I don't promise you anything for tomorrow”
we can have an interview and that's completely different!
And you know what else? I am grateful to the bombshell because if it hadn't gotten me where it had gotten me, I wouldn't be where I am today. But this bombshell thing; it's old now. It served me. And I got out of it in time to keep from serving it. I used to think, I can't wait until 35, when people think I'm too old to be a bombshell. Maybe I'll get the good parts. But it wouldn't have happened that way. … Just because your boobs are saggy doesn't mean you get great roles. You're disposable.
O interview (2003)
Parade interview http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2007/edition_09-23-2007/AStephen_Colbert (23 September 2007)
Variant: You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.
Context: Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.
Dancing Nancies
Under the Table and Dreaming (1994)
--Carol
Source: Far from the Tree, Ch. 11 Transgender, p 671.